I don't know a lot about American "culture" (except for the American Pie, Road Trip, Not another teen movie,...) but if this is true I can finally start understanding why people voted for Bush. Twice.
Well, maybe I should watch the "Stupid Spoiled Whore" episode of South Park again and think of it as a documentary instead of a comedy show.
I'm not kidding, take a car or (illegaly) boosted scooter and go kill someone. Last month, the average fine was 500 euros, and your not allowed to drive a car/motorbike for 1 to 3 months.
Killing one child/old lady (make sure you don't kill anyone related to a rich family, or a family with political influence) is much more thrilling then downloading a hundred movies (or shoplifting a 100 dvd's), and doesn't cause as much trouble.
Disclaimer: Don't try this! Killing, for whatever reason, is wrong.
This is a setup that filters the mail of me and my family, and works very well (only 1 false negative in 200 spam messages, and no false positives so far).
I filter all my messages through spammassassin, with bayesian filtering enabled. Bayesian filtering causes a lot of CPU load when a message is scanned, but it's worth it. And URL blacklisting . That URL blacklisting is really important, since a lot of spam today only contains one image, with a link to a site, but that one link, makes it very easy for blacklists.
I hope they can come up with new ideas to defeat spam at the convention, but for now, this solution works fine for me.
Just leave your computer for a minute, go outside and socialize with some people. You'll find out that the shit you mentioned also exists outside the Net.
Bittorrent is on the winners list, but several key torrent sites that were raided are on the losers list as they have been permanently closed. The maddening thing is that torrent sites don't trade music files, just torrents (little road signs to files) so there is no legal precedent in ANY country that makes them illegal. The problem is, these sites don't have the money to mount a case. The concept of guilty until proven innocent gets a boost here.
That is not true actually, a few years ago, in Belgium, when mp3's where publicly available on http and ftp servers, some webmasters that only linked to those files or sites were sentenced/convicted in court (I don't know which is the most correct legal term). Here is a Dutch text that describes what happened: http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/jura/36n2/dumortier. htm .
I'd say your friend is the bad guy. Why doesn't he look for a decent job like most of do? "He is doing it for his master..." isn't an excuse. We're all human being with our own mind, only brainwashed people, or people who were tortured could say "I was doing so because I was asked to". Other people using this as an argument are just too lousy to take their responsibilities.
I'm not sure wheter this works with this Google service, but if you right click on a page in mozilla, choose "View Page info" and go to the tab "Media". You can select the image you need and click "Save as", no need to look through obfuscated html.
Microsoft creates more jobs in one month than you linux fags will do in a life time. Thank god our legal system is rational, microsoft will probably just have to pay a fine.
Why does the opposite of Microsoft have to be Free software? A fair market situation would be if e.g. at least 3 different OSes for PC were sold and would have an equal market share.
The fact that only a free os can compete with Windows proves how ill the software market is. A monoculture is always bad. Even for jobs. If there were real competitors to Microsoft, there would be more people employed. Have you ever questioned how many people lost their job because Microsoft ruined/bought their company?
Except I don't remember the Cubans ever starting a world war and killing millions of people.
But your right: every country has its restrictions on what can and cannot be sold. In the Netherlands you can buy pot legally, which is prohibited in most countries I know (of course, that doesn't mean pot isn't being sold there too). In Texas you can't buy dildo's (of course you can, but they label it "educational aids"). And in fact, I don't think restricting the sales of Nazi stuff is that bad. I mean, Nazi's are all about hatred. Making a whole nation hate a certain group of people can end up very bad (jewspalestina, muslim fundamentalistsunited states, catholicsprotestants,...).
first rule: Companies exist to make profit. Making things cheaper doesn't mean more profit (only in special scenarios). The "cheaper" for some, will most likely result in a lot more expensive for others (and everything added up: a bigger profit for the company).
Second thought: Installing such things in each cars is going to cost money. How will such expenses make insurances cheaper?
That's not true. Most PP presentations would look better if someone removed the animations, gradients and cliparts. But to make them really look good, you need some more artistic skills.
From the microsoft site:
Localized customization. With Windows XP Starter Edition, users can choose from country-specific wallpapers and screensavers with familiar landscapes, flags and geography-specific traditional designs.
That's fantastic, if I were Asian that is what would persuate me! Who cares you can only run 3 apps at a time if the wallpaper is showing a familiar landscape?
> I could not find an easy way to roll back the changes.
I've replaced the goatse links with the links from revision 21 (hoping that those were correct).
That was revision 24, and now somebody made revision 25, in which another link was corrected.
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AFAIK most 3D displaying technologies are used in design tasks such as car design. Buying such screen just to see naked women on pop up your screen sound a little sad to me.
The vast majority might not live in America, but they might be concerned about what is happening in America
Not so true, ok business people are interested in what's going on in the US, and some people (like me) are interested in it's foreign politics. But the vast majority doesn't give a damn about what happens in the US (except for Holywood of course).
and what Americans are thinking.
And reading those papers will help us understanding an american mind? What I have heard is that most american media do not represent what the average american thinks.
Just ask the Iraqis and the Afgans or people from hundreds of other countries whether what happens in America affects them.
Unfortunately you're right, the US (and it's corporations) governs more countries than it is supposed to. Allthough not in every country its as obvious as in Iraq or Afganistan. But then again, that's no reason why the non-american public should be subjected to american we-are-the-greatest-and-rule-the-world-media.
Maybe people don't care about the exact laws, but people do care about the effects of DRM. Look at the Sony personal media players vs. the regular mp3 players. A lot of people don't want a MD system from Sony because it doesn't allow copying music from the MD to the PC, while most other mp3 player do allow that. Of course, if when the law has passed, it's already too late, and people will just have to live with it.
jabber (http://jabber.org/), does work with servers, but it's not with one big central server, but more like with email: a lot of independant servers. Jabber also allows encrypting your messages with pgp or http://gnupg.org/.
not quite sure: but you can probably only connect to the local DNS (caching) server on the WLAN. DNS requests are forwarded to the server that is responsible for a certain domain. So to route the DNS packets (with other traffic encapsulated in it) to your DNS server, you need a domain... I guess...
You are right, I know people who do that when they travel through international airports. It doesn't work that fast (something like a 36k modem) , but it is free. AFAIK you do need a domain and a DNS server you control yourself.
if he had charged people to use Linux from the early beginning, nobody would have helped devellop it, and it would never have grown so big. Since the beginning of the '90s, no other company succeeded to make another operating system that has/had a significant amount of users. The reason Linux grew was because it was free and open source.
In Belgian schools the situation isn't any better. Most of the schools are MS only. The worst problem is that the government pays schools to use MS software. It's called the MS-KIS project. Unfortunately I haven't found any English documenation on it. But for those who speak Dutch or French: you can take a look at:http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/education/lic ensing/school.aspx and http://www.digikids.be/.
A brief description of the project: It's a contract you sign with Microsoft, after you've signed it you have to pay each year. Teachers get the software for "free" (you must prevent them from using anything else!, it would be a disaster for MS if teachers get in touch with OS software). And to make it an attrive offer for the schools, the government pays a part of the price.
I think you're comments on the "file system" are wrong. First of all, you're not talking about what "file system" technically means. Strictly filesystems are OS independent. Out of all OSes Linux can probably handle most of them. Of course there are some "typical linux filesystems" such as ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs.
What you're commenting on is the Unix vs Microsoft way of handling files/folders. And if your argument is intiutivity: take a look at Mac OS X, it's also based on the / structure. Some things are just more easy with this way of working. Especially mixing rw an ro partitions, network partitions,... transparent to the user/applications. If you log in to a *nix box with home directories which are actually located on some nfs server, you'll find them under/home/youruserame. If you look for a program, you'll find it under/usr/bin. It doesn't matter if it is a rw partition on your local harddisc, or a nfs partition on some server, or even a ro cd, it's in/usr, where you expect it to be. With windows its a lot less intuitive to find My Documents on C: at box A, on D: at box B, and maybe on Y: at your work. Even worse if you want to install a program on a network disc. If you want to install it on M:\program files\, but the windows dll's are on E:\windows, you're really fucked. And nowadays most computers have more than 1 harddrive partition. In the old days A: was the floppy, C: the harddrive, D: the cdrom. But today I find computers with C, D and E are harddrive partitions. F and G are cdrom and dvd. J and I are shared music and movie drives, and M some online webspace. You call that intuitive? With the "everything is in/" structure you can have a/usr on the local disc,/usr/bin on a ro local disc,/usr/lib on a nfs share, it's just more flexible.
And to find your files, just use common sense: most Linux user mount their cd's under/mnt/cdrom, or/mnt/dvd, a floppy is usually:/mnt/floppy. Install programs in/usr: the executable goes in/usr/bin,/usr/sbin if it's a static one. Shared objects go in/usr/lib. Files belonging to a particular user go in/home/username. In that directory you can create folders for you text documents, multimedia files,... in whatever way you want. If you want to share those files with other users on the pc, create a directory like/public.
I agree that at first the structure on a unix system looks like chaos, you seem unable to find anything in it. But when you understand some of it's basics, you see how logical and powerful it is.
Manuals is another discussion, and for every project the documentation is different. But IMHO the Gimp documentation is good.
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I don't know a lot about American "culture" (except for the American Pie, Road Trip, Not another teen movie, ...) but if this is true I can finally start understanding why people voted for Bush. Twice.
Well, maybe I should watch the "Stupid Spoiled Whore" episode of South Park again and think of it as a documentary instead of a comedy show.
in europe it's already the second of April,but as I'm reading the subjects on the main page, US obviously still enjoys the first of April
I'm not kidding, take a car or (illegaly) boosted scooter and go kill someone. Last month, the average fine was 500 euros, and your not allowed to drive a car/motorbike for 1 to 3 months.
Killing one child/old lady (make sure you don't kill anyone related to a rich family, or a family with political influence) is much more thrilling then downloading a hundred movies (or shoplifting a 100 dvd's), and doesn't cause as much trouble.
Disclaimer: Don't try this! Killing, for whatever reason, is wrong.
This is a setup that filters the mail of me and my family, and works very well (only 1 false negative in 200 spam messages, and no false positives so far). I filter all my messages through spammassassin, with bayesian filtering enabled. Bayesian filtering causes a lot of CPU load when a message is scanned, but it's worth it. And URL blacklisting . That URL blacklisting is really important, since a lot of spam today only contains one image, with a link to a site, but that one link, makes it very easy for blacklists.
I hope they can come up with new ideas to defeat spam at the convention, but for now, this solution works fine for me.
Just leave your computer for a minute, go outside and socialize with some people. You'll find out that the shit you mentioned also exists outside the Net.
Bittorrent is on the winners list, but several key torrent sites that were raided are on the losers list as they have been permanently closed. The maddening thing is that torrent sites don't trade music files, just torrents (little road signs to files) so there is no legal precedent in ANY country that makes them illegal. The problem is, these sites don't have the money to mount a case. The concept of guilty until proven innocent gets a boost here.
. htm .
That is not true actually, a few years ago, in Belgium, when mp3's where publicly available on http and ftp servers, some webmasters that only linked to those files or sites were sentenced/convicted in court (I don't know which is the most correct legal term). Here is a Dutch text that describes what happened: http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/jura/36n2/dumortier
I'd say your friend is the bad guy. Why doesn't he look for a decent job like most of do? "He is doing it for his master ..." isn't an excuse. We're all human being with our own mind, only brainwashed people, or people who were tortured could say "I was doing so because I was asked to". Other people using this as an argument are just too lousy to take their responsibilities.
In conclusion, if you are coming to Sweden to have good-looking lovers, only do so if you are a gay man--you'll save yourself a lot of disappointment.
If I was ever to go to Sweden, it would be for the cheap 10 or 100Mbps internet connections.
I'm not sure wheter this works with this Google service, but if you right click on a page in mozilla, choose "View Page info" and go to the tab "Media". You can select the image you need and click "Save as", no need to look through obfuscated html.
Microsoft creates more jobs in one month than you linux fags will do in a life time. Thank god our legal system is rational, microsoft will probably just have to pay a fine.
Why does the opposite of Microsoft have to be Free software? A fair market situation would be if e.g. at least 3 different OSes for PC were sold and would have an equal market share.
The fact that only a free os can compete with Windows proves how ill the software market is. A monoculture is always bad. Even for jobs. If there were real competitors to Microsoft, there would be more people employed. Have you ever questioned how many people lost their job because Microsoft ruined/bought their company?
Except I don't remember the Cubans ever starting a world war and killing millions of people. ...).
But your right: every country has its restrictions on what can and cannot be sold. In the Netherlands you can buy pot legally, which is prohibited in most countries I know (of course, that doesn't mean pot isn't being sold there too). In Texas you can't buy dildo's (of course you can, but they label it "educational aids").
And in fact, I don't think restricting the sales of Nazi stuff is that bad. I mean, Nazi's are all about hatred. Making a whole nation hate a certain group of people can end up very bad (jewspalestina, muslim fundamentalistsunited states, catholicsprotestants,
first rule: Companies exist to make profit. Making things cheaper doesn't mean more profit (only in special scenarios). The "cheaper" for some, will most likely result in a lot more expensive for others (and everything added up: a bigger profit for the company).
Second thought: Installing such things in each cars is going to cost money. How will such expenses make insurances cheaper?
That's not true. Most PP presentations would look better if someone removed the animations, gradients and cliparts. But to make them really look good, you need some more artistic skills.
From the microsoft site:
Localized customization. With Windows XP Starter Edition, users can choose from country-specific wallpapers and screensavers with familiar landscapes, flags and geography-specific traditional designs.
That's fantastic, if I were Asian that is what would persuate me! Who cares you can only run 3 apps at a time if the wallpaper is showing a familiar landscape?
> I could not find an easy way to roll back the changes.
I've replaced the goatse links with the links from revision 21 (hoping that those were correct). That was revision 24, and now somebody made revision 25, in which another link was corrected.
AdvocayPlatforms should be safe for visting now.
AFAIK most 3D displaying technologies are used in design tasks such as car design. Buying such screen just to see naked women on pop up your screen sound a little sad to me.
The vast majority might not live in America, but they might be concerned about what is happening in America
Not so true, ok business people are interested in what's going on in the US, and some people (like me) are interested in it's foreign politics. But the vast majority doesn't give a damn about what happens in the US (except for Holywood of course).
and what Americans are thinking.
And reading those papers will help us understanding an american mind? What I have heard is that most american media do not represent what the average american thinks.
Just ask the Iraqis and the Afgans or people from hundreds of other countries whether what happens in America affects them.
Unfortunately you're right, the US (and it's corporations) governs more countries than it is supposed to. Allthough not in every country its as obvious as in Iraq or Afganistan. But then again, that's no reason why the non-american public should be subjected to american we-are-the-greatest-and-rule-the-world-media.
Maybe people don't care about the exact laws, but people do care about the effects of DRM. Look at the Sony personal media players vs. the regular mp3 players. A lot of people don't want a MD system from Sony because it doesn't allow copying music from the MD to the PC, while most other mp3 player do allow that. Of course, if when the law has passed, it's already too late, and people will just have to live with it.
jabber (http://jabber.org/), does work with servers, but it's not with one big central server, but more like with email: a lot of independant servers. Jabber also allows encrypting your messages with pgp or http://gnupg.org/.
not quite sure: but you can probably only connect to the local DNS (caching) server on the WLAN. DNS requests are forwarded to the server that is responsible for a certain domain. So to route the DNS packets (with other traffic encapsulated in it) to your DNS server, you need a domain... I guess ...
You are right, I know people who do that when they travel through international airports. It doesn't work that fast (something like a 36k modem) , but it is free. AFAIK you do need a domain and a DNS server you control yourself.
if he had charged people to use Linux from the early beginning, nobody would have helped devellop it, and it would never have grown so big. Since the beginning of the '90s, no other company succeeded to make another operating system that has/had a significant amount of users. The reason Linux grew was because it was free and open source.
A brief description of the project: It's a contract you sign with Microsoft, after you've signed it you have to pay each year. Teachers get the software for "free" (you must prevent them from using anything else!, it would be a disaster for MS if teachers get in touch with OS software). And to make it an attrive offer for the schools, the government pays a part of the price.
Of course, Apple wants you to pay them to do it: http://www.apple.com/batteries/replacements.html. But if your iPod is out of warranty, and you're a DIY guy, you can try to replace it yourself: http://www.ipodbattery.com/.
What you're commenting on is the Unix vs Microsoft way of handling files/folders. And if your argument is intiutivity: take a look at Mac OS X, it's also based on the / structure. Some things are just more easy with this way of working. Especially mixing rw an ro partitions, network partitions, ... transparent to the user/applications. If you log in to a *nix box with home directories which are actually located on some nfs server, you'll find them under /home/youruserame. If you look for a program, you'll find it under /usr/bin. It doesn't matter if it is a rw partition on your local harddisc, or a nfs partition on some server, or even a ro cd, it's in /usr, where you expect it to be. With windows its a lot less intuitive to find My Documents on C: at box A, on D: at box B, and maybe on Y: at your work. Even worse if you want to install a program on a network disc. If you want to install it on M:\program files\, but the windows dll's are on E:\windows, you're really fucked. And nowadays most computers have more than 1 harddrive partition. In the old days A: was the floppy, C: the harddrive, D: the cdrom. But today I find computers with C, D and E are harddrive partitions. F and G are cdrom and dvd. J and I are shared music and movie drives, and M some online webspace. You call that intuitive? With the "everything is in /" structure you can have a /usr on the local disc, /usr/bin on a ro local disc, /usr/lib on a nfs share, it's just more flexible.
And to find your files, just use common sense: most Linux user mount their cd's under /mnt/cdrom, or /mnt/dvd, a floppy is usually: /mnt/floppy. Install programs in /usr: the executable goes in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin if it's a static one. Shared objects go in /usr/lib. Files belonging to a particular user go in /home/username. In that directory you can create folders for you text documents, multimedia files, ... in whatever way you want. If you want to share those files with other users on the pc, create a directory like /public.
I agree that at first the structure on a unix system looks like chaos, you seem unable to find anything in it. But when you understand some of it's basics, you see how logical and powerful it is.
Manuals is another discussion, and for every project the documentation is different. But IMHO the Gimp documentation is good.